Rook Lane Blog

February 19, 2026

A film by Damon Gameau – 8 kids go on a trip across Europe to challenge powerful leaders and find solutions to our ecological challenges
The Frome Youth Climate Action Group invites you to a showing of Future Council, (PG) directed by Damon Gameau (known for 2040 and That Sugar Film).

Future Council follows eight children on a biofuel-powered road trip across Europe as they challenge powerful leaders and seek solutions to ecological crises. The film celebrates youth leadership and imagines a future shaped by hope, courage, and collective action.

Join us for this wonderful and moving film where children explore what it takes to create change, as they go from meetings with some of the most powerful CEOs in the world to their own open, honest and playful adventures together.

May 2, 2025

A screening of cameraman Jono Ekin’s intimate video diary documenting his incredible journey on a 1965 Royal Enfield motorcycle, travelling from India through Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, and into Europe in 1999. This educational and humorous film was previously broadcast on SKY TV’s Destination Adventure. £10 of each ticket sale will go to Medicine Aid for Palestinians.

May 2, 2025

Explore exhibitions and selection of three thought provoking films. 25 Million Stitches discusses human displacement, Jus d’orange explores humanity’s delicate relationship with nature, and Heal The Land captures a transformation of former livestock farm into a resilient haven for wildlife recovery. 

February 28, 2025

The Frome International Climate Film Festival is back in May 2025 as we grow and connect more filmmakers from around the world and promote their films at our festival in Frome, Somerset. In 2025 we have had films from over 84 countries from around the world.

February 13, 2024

The evening is being hosted by the Frome International Climate Film Festival, the first and only dedicated climate film festival in the world, which takes place every May. Both this film and The Climate Film Festival showcase the importance of kindness to each other and to nature, the environment, and the planet we coexist on.

August 31, 2023

Screening of Dylan Howitt’s documentary The Nettle Dress followed by Q&A

February 13, 2018

Join Architecture Club for a screening of this acclaimed documentary.

October 2, 2017

This screening is being organised by Fair Housing for Frome, a community group running a campaign during 2017 to raise awareness of, and seek solutions to, the housing crisis in Frome. The screening will be followed by a […]

April 5, 2017

PRISON (FÄNGELSE) The new season of films at Rook Lane Chapel. Join us for a classic shown the best way. Ingmar Bergman’s cinematic experiment, made early in his cinematic career, holds a mirror to the film-making process:  following […]

October 28, 2016

Hal Hartley’s reinvention of small-town life and the loves and ambitions of an out-of-kilter younger generation is peopled with intriguingly unconventional stock characters interacting not quite predictably and is a joy to watch.